Regeneration

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Evaluation

In this regeneration project I have learnt many things especially more digital skills learning more on photoshop and learning how illustrator works to do drawing and also to make a pattern, This will be useful in the future if I cant find a print I want and have to make it on my own and also learnt to use other equipment for illustrator and was interesting figuring and learning for myself as it was a big part of my project, it was quite difficult with the digital things as it isnt my strongest point however it was in the end the one of the best outcome, I also learnt to natural dye and to make the fabric the change shape with a steamer and I was extremely interested in the digital things as it was quite difficult and it was good to challenge myself.

I discovered more about sustainability and the fashion industry there are lots of things that aren’t sustainable in the fashion industry such as the fabric waste and even the workers. This also leads to harming the environment and with the fabric left in the land and the massive factories letting out toxic fumes. It doesn’t just stop with the environmental things also it also things that happen in the industry that harms animals like animal testing however more and more companies have stopped and made it more animal friendly. The industries make a positive outcome is that they upcycle left over fabric and use it to make more sustainable clothing so no fabric goes to waste or use digital printing or screen printing as it uses most of the ink and helps the environment. There are also more eco friendly techniques such as patchwork, natural dying, shibori, weaving and digital prints.

The artists that have inspired my artists the most are Sandre Meech as she relates her work to climate change which relates to our theme regeneration and making out outcome more eco friendly and Sandre does that as she relates her work to climate change and is very unique, not an artist however still make art are the Marine Debris art as even-though they aren’t exactly artists themselves they help others collect plastic debris from the ocean and make it into art and help others get a better understanding and educating people in the damage plastic debris and netting have on the sea life and ocean as the ocean is really important to the planet and helps with the climate change and sea level rising, they have made me have a better understanding on the ocean and also inspired me to used plastic in my work had I did. Monica guilera also influenced me in this project as she uses natural resources for her weaving and creates baskets which are eco friendly, helping me understanding that I can weave with many things not just wool. They all helped me get a better understanding on different eco friendly art and designs for more sustainable work.

I chose to focus more on interior as I had prior to this project did fashion and had used my strongest techniques such as embroidery and Lino print and I wanted to go outside my box a little as I wanted to try something new to further my skills however I still used my strong points such as embroidery. I chose to apply sustainable eco friendly techniques in more such was ding, digital printing and heat pressing used plastic items and weaving. This was very successful as my stitching in the pillows was one of them best that I have done and as I had done a pillow in the past it turned out really well, with the second pillow I added lots of different techniques in one pillow I used heat pressing used plastic netting that oranges and lemons come in and also heat pressed it on the pillow and also dyed my own fabric and then hand embroidered fishes on the pillow to match my theme. This is sustainable as I’m not buying new fabric and only using fabric that’s been left over or using things that have been used already.

I would see my pillows in a all around home store such as dunelm or Homebase as my first pillow that I made with my digital print looks like it could be in a little boys room as it isn’t too obvious what the print is about it just covers the whales and fishes and with some red bits in it so it would be easily sold in any store and is sustainable as it’s digital printed and I made the fabric design myself. I had decided to keep the photoshoot basic and just took pictures with a stand and a chair and put the pillows together in the chair and the photos turned out really well and all three of my outcomes really match well together, and together shows what I wanted to show and the problems with overfishing as the embriodery of the fish over the heat pressed nets shows the netting.

I would have researched more if I had more time into the problems of fashion sustainability and used more sustainable fabrics that could be biodegrable however that would be more expensive so it held that I dyed my own fabric. I faced a lot of challenges with the stitching not being straight and me having to unpick it and restiched it. The worst outcome was the lamp as I had to redo the design lots because the weaving didn’t fit right in the lamp so I had to change the design of the original lamp, adjusting the design to the time and adding the fabric that I had left over so I didn’t have to used new fabric and waste the fabric that I could use to make it more sustainable.

Overall my outcome was really successful as my outcome was more detailed and refined than I thought it would turn out like and the photoshoot really showed the outcomes really well. This project didn’t seem too interesting at first however with some research and some finalising with the designs this has been the strongest outcome and my favourite outcome and it really shows the troubles with overfishing in a sustainable way. I could have improved with time management as I didn’t have time to research last minutes and get a better understanding of the troubles and if I had managed to research before I made my final piece I could have added more details in my pillows. This furthered my skills with embroidery and it’s my strongest skill I now think and have gotten better with my straight stitching.

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Final photoshoot

For my final photoshoot I didn’t really plan it out however wanted it to look like how pillow and lamps are shown at shops and to keep it simple, I didn’t have time to take it home so I decided to the photoshoot at college in the photography room and stick with the basic white backgrounds with lights with just a chair and stand. If I more time to do the photoshoot I would change the background Tina blue colour and make it more surrounding my theme.

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The process of the lamp was a long process and was the most difficult process out of them all. When I spray painted the lamp the lamp went really bumpy as I had to spray outside and the rain got it, so I decided to cover it up with muscles and it also matches the theme of regeneration project really well, I also spray painting the lampshade.

Then I started with the weaving using the colours blue to match the ocean and whales and also cutting up stripes of my digital print and adding that to the weave, once it was done I wrapped it around my lamp. This was the difficult part as the weave didn’t fit the whole lamp i had to add another thing so it would cover the lamp completely. So with help with my lecturer and peers we found a solution and covered the lampshade completely with my digital print fabric as I had lots of it left over and used a hot glue gun, this process was difficult as I had to keep ripping the glue off because the fabric wasn’t laying right however I got there in the end, and because I didn’t want to waste the weave I still added it to my lamp but just on the top and to match my lamp and pillow together I heat pressed some plastic on it like my second pillow and it turned out really well.

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Experimenting with different fishes to embroider, with embroidery I tried drawing different fishes to see which ones I liked better and I really like the tales so I chose to do that in my pillow and the simple fishes. I didn’t like the look of the more complicated fishes as they looked really cartoon like but with my experimentation I chose the colours that I liked and u did decide on the same colours.

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The ocean is continuous body of salt water that cover more than 70 percent of Earths surface. The ocean hood about 321 million cubic miles, 1.34 billion cubic kilometres of water, which is roughly 97 percent of Earths water supply. Seawater weight is about 3.5 percent dissolved salt, oceans are also rich in chlorine, magnet and calcium. The oceans Osborn the suns heat transferring it to the atmosphere and distributing it around the world.

The oceans are home to millions of earths pants and animals from tiny single cells organisms to the gargantuan blue whale, the planets largest animal. Fish, octopus, starfish, oysters and snails crawl and scoot alone the ocean bottom. Life in the ocean depend on phytoplankton, mostly microscopic organisms that float at the surface and, through photosynthesis, produce about half the works oxygen. The deepest reaches of the ocean were once thought to be decided of life since no light penetrates beyond 1,000 meters but then hydrothermal vents were discovered. Other long lived species are in crisis. The tiny soft bodied organisms known as coral, which form reefs mostly found in shallow tropical waters are threatened by pollution. Researchers are seeking ways to preserve fragile, ailing ecosystems such as Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

Human activities affect nearly all parts of the ocean. Lost abs discarded fishing nets continue to lethally snare fish, seabirds and marine mammals as they drift. Ships spill oil and garbage they also transport critters to alone habitats unprepared for their arrival, turning them into invasive species.

Climate change, the term of scientists now use to deceive global warming and other trends currently affecting the plant because of high green house has- emissions from humans is strikingly reflected in the oceans. The year 2018 marked the oceans hottest year in record and warmer water lead to a range of consequences from changing colour to rising seal levels to more frequent powerful storms. The greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is also turning ocean waters acidic.

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Information about whaling.

Why do people hunt wales?

Over a thousand whales are killed every year because some poorly want to making money from selling their meat and body parts. Their oil, blubber and cartilage are used in pharmaceuticals and health supplements. Whale meat is even used in pet food, or served to tourists as a “traditional dish”. Exploiting the bodies of whales for money is illegal in most countries.

Why can some countries continue whaling?

Whaling for profit was banned in 1986. But reluctant to give up the market for whale meat and products, Japan, Iceland and Norway continue to hunt and kill fin, minke and sei whales every year. Norway objects to the ban, Iceland hunts under a dubious “reservation” while Japan had gone it alone and restarted commercial whaling.

Why are dolphins hunted too?

Despite it being illegal in most countries, dolphins and small whales are hunted in many parts of the world. This is mostly for their meat and use thier body parts, although in a Taqii in Japan young animals are captured and sold into a lift in captivity.

Deliberate hunting of small whales are dolphins is a growing conservation concern for many species and populations with thousand of individuals killed in countries around the world for food, bait, currency or supposed traditional medicines and charms.

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Ana Teresa

She studied painting in the faculty of Art at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. using embroidery, yarn and wool. She created landscapes and other imagery that exists in the space between tapestry and sculpture. Emulating the flow of waves or grass, each piece breaks out of its embroidery hoop and tumbles down the wall upon which it is being displayed. In some her recent work Ana tracks the movement of plants with a time based embroidery. She begins by projecting light onto plants in her studio casting shadows into a wall behind them, The artist traces these shadows each day recording the movement and growth of the plants. The drawings are then turned into brightly coloured embroideries that log the plants activity for 15 days. The embroidery prices show different coloured sections for each day of the plants growth. Day one for example might be shown in red, Day two in green and so forth.

Her work really relates to the the of regeneration as she uses natural resources and helps out the environment and makes it more sustainable art. Her embroidery really inspired my embroidery for my lamp as she uses colours for the plant and I used colours that related to my theme

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Primary drawings

These drawings are from the pictures I took at the zoo and the picture I took at the sea life years ago. I wanted to experiment with drawing before I drew on my pillow abs to chose the right ones I want to draw for my pillow. These pictures that are drew are also the same picture I used for my drawings for the pillow.

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Sandra meech

Sandre meech was trained as a fine artist and illustrator, working as a graphic designer and art director in magazine publishing, in Toronto and london. Later when introduced to stitched textiles- photography, painting and collage with mixed media on fabric and stitch became her new approach to creative expression. After her diploma research about caribu skin clothing and the textiles based on the Inuit in Artic Canada she travelled there in 1988 and became the first series of textile and art quilts based in these northern regions. More recently after visiting Iceland and Antartica, Sandre has returned to this theme “meltdown” focuses on climate change and how weather patterns worldwide have been affected.

Her work really relates to my work as she layers her different layers different skills together while making her work related to the big issues around the world, however her work isn’t sustainable.

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Marine Debris Art. They have been known for its creative artist community for hundreds of years. In recent years, many artists around the world are exploring a new type of artistic expression. Debris that washed up onto a beach in hands of the artist can become beautiful and a reminder of the role humans play in stewardship of our natural resources. Each year the centre of coastal studies work with students and artists to exhibit compelling art created from marine plastic debris. Thier friends from the Bow seat hood an annual student art contest which helps with the remarkable art concerning the issue of marine debris and ocean health, from middle and high school students around the world, and their own education department brings students to the beach to collect material to create their own works of art.

To prevent certain fishing gear from becoming marine debris, the center’s marine plastic programme facilitated the pity of hundreds of thousands of pounds and miles and miles of used and retired rope from the lobster fishery, and provided it to rope artists like Orly avenger and the Cape Porpoise trading company to use in creating beautiful works of arts and function.

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Mock up drawings

These are some mock ups of the possible outcomes of my lamps and pillows, I had record to use my digital print for my square pillow and for my longer pillow I would use heat press, embroidery and dye for it and the lamp I used my digital print and also weaving.

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Experimentation with dyes

I used different types of dyes for my pillow pillow, I used different types of colours that I thought might match my theme and the thread I’m using. I decided to use a brighter blue and make a pattern and then put it into the steamer, I didn’t like the coloured one as if I were to embroider into with coloured thread it would be too much and wouldn’t really match the theme too well.

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This was the process of making my second pillow. First I started with dying the fabric and then cutting them out to the size I wanted them too and then overlooking the edges. After making the base of the fabric I used the plastic holder that’s oranges and lemons come in and heat pressed it on the fabric to make it look like a fishing net. Finally I drew some fish and Wales and sharks, using the similar colours orange, beige, burnt orange and blue threads. I started to embroider and once done with my three original drawings, my lecturer thought that the colours were random so I decided to draw some little drawings and used similar colours threads to also fill up the empty space.

The process of making this pillow was much longer as it had more different techniques in that’s why I decided not to do a third pillow as this second pillow took a lot of time and used a lot of technique which if I did make a third pillow I would use mono print and it would be random and repeated of the same fishes.

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Primary photos from the zoo

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Researching into eco friendly cushions the only eco friendly designs I found were natural dyes and hapazome on the fabric. These are eco friendly as they use natural materials and use less ink to design their print, and even using leaves as their mild and then spraying bleach or some type of colour changer so it prints the leaf or whatever is designed. The other eco friendly ways to create a design for a cushion is digitally printing onto fabric and screen printing however there will still be the tiniest ink left so that would not be the best however it is still better than buying fabric and cutting it to the size you want and only using it once and putting the rest to bin, or even using fabric that takes less energy and resources to make would be eco friendly.

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Eco friendly lamp shade by lobster and Swan. Her lampshades are a pendant lampshade with a simple and clean aesthetic, the twin tone lampshades are made entirely from one single material, two sheets of heavyweight paper that are bonded together, hence them being the perfect eco friendly lighting choice. They decided to make some extra work for themselves and hand it in their own house. In their latest collection form Lane, each lampshade brings together two inspiring colours carefully matched from little greene- that have been screen printed in the inside and outside. There are no plastic components even the fitting inside is card, making them entirely recyclable and biodegradable. The paper is made in England and the lampshades are die cut in the Uk, then they are hand assembled in a local location. These are the only eco friendly lampshades that are made in the Uk apart from the bamboo and wood ones.

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This was my first pillow that I made, I had made a pillow in the past so I didn’t need to really do a practice pillow. To start off I used the pillow stencil that’s fitted my pillow then I chose a grey get that matched the colour of my digital print fabric and also used my fabric. After cutting the fabric out, I overlooked all the edges and then with the two grey felt fabric that’s slightly smaller. I did a seam twice for the one and the stitching in that didn’t turn out very well as it was folded over the fabric was thicker and the sewing machine kept jamming the fabric. Then I pinned the fabric all together and then stitched them all together. This turned out so much better than I thought and I think the fact that I i had already done a pillow in the past made it so much easier however when I first started it I cut out my fabric way too small to start with because I didn't use a stencil and it was too small.